Daniel

I love hamburguers with pineapple as well., yum.

Money making method 3: Videogame addiction blog with an affiliate program for Cam´s ebooks.

Day 32 My trip ends today, tomorrow I will back to my state. The trip was pretty amazing, spent most of my money on chocolate and habanero sauces. Looking forward to keep up with school asignments, hitting the gym and seeing my girlfriend. ### Picture is my agenda with the Seinfield method when I achieved 30 days. Notice how my agenda is empty before the detox, reflecting my depression.

Sounds like you made the most out of your trip! Great!

Congratulations Reno, That weird feeling of emptiness I can relate. I feel it when I go out late at night to drink with my cousin. I just feel it´s a waste of time, money and health. However I have no problem getting 1 beer during a sunny afternoon.

Do you have a long term goal? A life plan? Congratulations on your 32 days without gaming. Let´s accomplish 60 now! Cheers.

Pineapple statue at my grave please. There are many learning methods, try to discover which one suits you. Learning styles You been writting often about videogames. Hang in there.

Day 31 During the first day of my detox I felt fear. I thought to myself I am actually doing this. What am I gonna do when I want to play?During the first week I lurked a lot, probably visited the forum 4 times a day and googled about videogame addictions. There are cravings, but I was making sure to use the tools.During the second week I fully understand the tools. Felt cravings.During the third week you develop a lot of awareness about your detox thoughts and cravingsDuring the 4 week you feel excited about having some weeks under your belt. You wanna know what I crave now? Talking to pretty girls, haha. Specially young girls 18-25. I just feel like it would be the right thing to do. Also I feel that I can´t stay too long laying in my bed (unless I had a huge meal which makes me want to take a 20 min nap)

Day 30 “It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. Life is long enough, and a sufficiently generous amount has been given to us for the highest achievements if it were all well invested.” First milestone achieved! Lately I been falling asleep with my body tired and my mind with ideas to fulfill the next day. This is how I felt when I was passionate about life. I would seem that there are not enough hours in the day. But perhaps I'm not being efficient with my time. It is important to notice that I also see a doctor to treat my depression. I'm sure this has helped me accomplish this milestone. But how do I feel after 30 days without masturbation, videogames and pornography? (MPV) Masturbation: While some claim that is healthy, there's an even more healthy habit, safe sex. After sex I feel more energy, I want to go and do stuff, but after masturbation, I just wanna lay in my bed and fall asleep. After sex with someone you love, you feel better while cuddling. After masturbation I felt lonely and this weird feeling of emptiness that I can't quite explain.. In my case my girlfriend is younger than me, and she wants sex more often than me. I try to have sex even less often than I would want to. I've been masturbating on and off since 13. Videogames: When you are busy, there's no time for videogames. I still think of videogames, from all three the one I miss the most is this one, specially the one that I played during my depression. Perhaps if I had no needs or goals I could play, but I do have needs and goals. When my cousin talks to me about PokemonGo I feel weird about him. Like something is wrong with him, he is a couple of years younger than me, has a relative easy and good paying job, beautiful gilrfriend...and he...chases imaginary pixels in his free time? It's like I could sense his life is empty and he is not passionate about it. However I'm no one to judge his life, those are his decisions. It's does help me see what I don't want in my life, following dumb trends is one of them. The cravings are super rare. Actually when I see the chance yo play, I ask myself why I'm not craving this? I've been playing videogames since I was 6 years old. Pornography: I took a couple of weeks for this one to go away. And it came real fast. Reality hits you, watching other people have sex....in a screen? wtf?! Disgusting. Sex is and intimate and private act. I've been watching pornography on and off since I around 14-15. Conclusion: When someone else asks you, what did you do today? Will you be able to answer "Oh I played videogames, then watched some porn and masturbated" Since a long time ago I was looking to break this vicious circle, by avoiding MPV. Right now, my life a lot better without those habits. Thanks, Cam ### Picture is Mérida´s Cathedral

Day 29 Yesterday I had some flashbacks of when I used to watch porn. Right now, I tried to remember name of pornstars and I could come up with at least 5 in less than a minute. Lately I been making this posts more like a journal. The problem is that I haven't been focusing on my detox symptoms and thoughts related to withdrawal. I believe these are very important, not only to me but for other who stumble upon our journals, this could give them and idea of what lies ahead in their path and give them hope. One more days and I will achieve 30 days without, masturbation, pornography and videogames. I will write more details of how the detox has affected me at day 30, 60 and 90. At the moments I'm juggling 3 journals, eventually I will drop two of them and stick to only one. That journal will become a moral exercise of my life. 15 years is a long time, you surely have fond memories about hockey. I remember you mentioned hockey at your E-Sports video. A psychologist once gave me a metaphor. You should treat life like an ice cream shop, try different flavors, otherwise, how will you find the ones you like? This is specially useful during depression. ### Picture is a painting depicting of the spanish conquest, it's located at the goverment palace at Mérida.

Have you considered seeing doctor? I refused taking medication for more than a year until I finally accepted I couldn´t beat my depression. This was the hardest step so far. My girlfriend encouraged me to do it after all my failed attempts to beat my depression. It´s probably a good a idea to talk to your family or best friend about this. I have been taking medication for about 3 months now. It isn´t even a controlled drug. I do however visit government subsidized hospital to see an specialist (psychiatrist) each month. The medication and Gamequitters are really helping me a lot. However I would like to stop the medication once I don´t need it. You can always use the natural methods: Physical ActivityGetting enough sunlightEating FishHaving SexSetting goals and accomplishing them

Day 28 I always begrudged the people who found their passion when they were young. I felt like I would never find my passion and would have to wait forever. All my friends had one (or at least I thought so). Soccer, baseball, swimming, Tae-Kwon-Do, Hacking, Playing the guitar, Playing the piano, Going to Church, Ballet. I instead played videogames. Some of my friends followed their passions, some didn't. I still think of videogaming specially vainglory from time to time. I think the real test will be when I upgrade my phone and avoiding Vainglory. But with Cams tools it will be easier, plus I deleted my accounts I'm still at Mérida will post pics soon! *Current effects about porn: From some time ago I noticed porn disgusts me. Sometimes, while watching tv with my cousin, a random nude or sex scene would come up and it bothered me. **My accountability partner last post was 10 days ago. In the meantime I will be posting at Marquess journal. I think Marquess is right, posting daily keeps your awareness sharp. In a way posting daily follows the pattern of those videogames where you have to wait like 12 or 24 to play again. Exchanging habits perhaps...

The game never ends, buy my new product, how to attract women when you are 70! Struggling with girls perhaps is due to lack education and weak male figures. I never had a real talk with my father about getting girls. Granted I never asked but I'm sure there was a time when fathers would talk with their sons about their worries and problems. He probably gave me the most awkward and shortest talk about condoms when I was 22. (I started using them at 17). Nowdays you have a problem, you ask google. Parents are busy all the time.

While videogames are a reliable method which must of us a very used to, there´s a whole world to explore. How many hobbies have we developed so much as videogames, really? Probably just work and school can compete in the time invested. Thinking too much can be dangerous, it´s better to live and experiment life.

Day 27 I´m staying at a hotel with my father. The bed at the hotel is so comfy I didn't want to wake up. I will be staying a week, but I will keep up with my posts and homework. Yesterday I was traveling via bus to Mexico City and then took a plane to Mérida, Yucatán. There´s a lot of foreigns here, probably from USA and Europe. I think it´s because it´s really cheap for them to stay here (unlike Acapulco here you pay in pesos not in dollars) The streets are really clean with colonial buildings, lots of musems and shows everyday. Mérida has a low crime rate so if you plan to come to México, this one is great choice. Now during my walk at the airport I remembered how Tynan did this hundreds of times with Todd. Many other times he did by himself. I´m sure a lot of people were traveling alone, that would be great adventure. I saw so many devices at those samsung charging stations. One of the best devices for Vainglory would be the S7. I know this because Samsung used advertising when I used to play. There was a kid playing a game on his cellphone, probably 8 years old, he wasn´t putting attention to his enviroment only being dragged around by his parents. I was like not so long ago. I have been thinking that my gaming addiction was developed by my depression. When I was 16 I had something very similar happen to me.

Boom. Found this Experts agree that there’s no typical time frame for breaking a habit, and the right recipe is going to be a mix of personality, motivation, circumstances, and the habit in question. "People who want to kick their habit for reasons that are aligned with their personal values will change their behaviour faster than people who are doing it for external reasons such as pressure from others,"says Berkman. Will read it at night.

Day 26 Yesterday we had a family meal at grandmothers house. It's good for her but I start to realize that getting a bunch of busy adults together, the same day, the same time, for the same activity can be hard. It's probably only pulled off because we are family and there's free food involved. I read Marquess blog and ended up reading about Ingress game. It reminded me of the time when I played Urban Dead. d Right now I'm traveling via bus while writting, in a way I'm trying to emulate Tynan. Must people are asleep because they either sleep late last night (aimlessly clicking their phones) or have nothing to do right now. Funny isn't it. Seeing how something we craved so much get's left behind. That's what I usually hear people need, I am like wtf? 12? But then again I think that tolerance level is achieved drinking frecuently on the weekends. Love those boom comments, lol

Do you enjoy eating food as well? You guys have so much in common

It's so cool that you have a buddhist temple near you. There's a saying which goes "you can't love others unless you love yourself" It's not ment to be taken literally, it means to give priority to yourself.

Narrowing down your topics would be great move. Specially when you move to a hosted website. I don´t think is much of a big deal while you are using a free plataform, it is supposed to be for practice. Just think of your niche and think if you would have a way to sell a product or service in the future. I don´t know if the picture of the room is a joke or not.

Day 25 Yesterday had to do some errands which were out of town. My girlfriend wanted to come as well. It all went pretty good. When I came back I realized that two days ago I left my laptop charger at my cousin's house. Realizing I couldn't use my laptop, I tried using my father's laptop, however it has less wifi range so I had to stay close to the modem. My father's laptop had no Microsoft Office to work with, I attempted to use dreamspark, gave up, then realized that the trial version would do fine. Then I needed to charge my fathers laptop but there are few sockets near the modem and the other sockets are far away from the modem. My girlfriend and I found the situation hilarious so we went to pick up the charger at my cousins house. Finished my assignment. When I was done went to grab 4 Heinekens and a bag of snacks. (I knew we had enough with 3 but she always wants us to get 4.) I realized my alcohol limit is 1 beer. Perhaps 2 but drink it slowly. Haha. That's cool I can actually buy quality beer and get tipsy with it. I noticed that even when I finished my homework I wanted to finish other tasks, like posting at my site, arrange files, videos, sort my projects, etc. However I gave priority to hang out with my girlfriend, cause I will be leaving the my state for a week. *This journal is becoming more of a personal journal than a detox journal Yea I am writting in spanish at my site. It's my native tongue. I understand that an habit is developed in around 21 days, not sure how many days you need to get rid of one. However addictions are for life aren´t they? I used to write the days like that when I started the detox, something like "87 more days to go" At my site my entries go like this "Day 25 of 90 days of detox"

Day 24 Spent a lot of time with the family and managed to get some homework done. I considered going out to grab a beer at a friend's place. My girlfriend declined because she has been working out and wants to avoid alcohol. Asked my cousin and gave me and unclear answer if he would go. Then at night it started raining. Oh well, I had to get up early anyway. Before falling asleep I remembered an old project of mine. Writting a book. I am very excited about this, I actually have a several personal diaries from where I will get my material. However this project can't be a priority, at least not yet. Now I need more time Yes! Thanks for the advice Cam, I will definitly start doing this. Sometimes I just don't like the social options I have on the table, but that's only because I have been too passive about it! I need to make my own social plans, invite people, and stay informed about current events that interest me.

Day 23 Things got better. Could focus a bit more on homework and went to the gym. I finally received the battery replacement for my Kindle but seems it won't hold charge. What a shame. My cousin invited me to go to bar. While it sounds great, going out at 10pm doesn't appeals to me. Seriously, what's wrong with grabbing a beer while the sun is still out? It's the second time in a row I decline.

Day 22 Yesterday was very similar to Day 16. Lack of focus, lack of ambition. I felt like on those days when all I did was game but couldn't get my fix. Like a zombie. It seems to me this reaction was due to a slight change in my morning and night routine. They night before I sleep at 11:30 and got up just a bit later than usual. No big deal really, but then I didn't follow my morning routine and it all went downhill from there. I advanced very little in my school assignments and watched some movies, even a bit of TV. GameQuitters tools prevented me from gaming. Without them it could have ended different. I didn't really feel like posting this. I was thinking of making some generic post writting that the day went alright. Perhaps out of shame or to pretend I'm still doing great with the detox. I'm thinking of writting down my goals and put them in my room walls could help me. While I think this was a bad day I don't think it was the worst. The craving was not huge and I simply felt discouraged. During the past five days I been writting my detox in this journal and at my personal website. This takes much more time, about 30 to 45 min. The benefit here is that I get feedback. The benefit at my website is that I am learning to use a hosted blog and practice my writting skills. However I haven´t mentioned to what I am addicted at my website.

You can always use Stayfocus o K-9 to moderate your youtube and news watching. Personally there´s too much negativity in the news so I usually skip them. Sometimes I even prefer to watch a sarcastic/comedy news at youtube. Sometimes I will buy the newspaper on a sunday morning or look around a bit on google news. If you are really into reading news you can read them while having breakfast, lunch or dinner. Another example is that while I brush my teeth I watch one of Cam´s videos.